Specification of Dinnis Burns : compounds for treating venereal disease.

  • Burns, Dinnis.
Date:
1869
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    Burns' Improvements in Compounds for Treating Venereal Disease. follows, it being explained that the various compounds herein-after described are each employed for treating different stages of the disease:— The compounds or combinations of substances used for those forms of the disease known as “ syphilis,” “ seminal weakness,” and “ nervous debility,” consist (first) of one quart of water and ten grains of cochineal 5 mixed, each ounce of which mixture is also combined with one drop of nitric acid and one drop of muriatic acid. A wineglassfull to be taken twice a-day. (Secondly.) A decoction of sarsaparilla combined with “iodide of potassium ” in proportion of one ounce of decoction of sarsaparilla to 10 seven grains of “ iodide of potassium.” A tablespoonful to be taken twice a day alternately with the former mixture for “ syphilis.” The third part of the Invention relates to a lotion for external use in treating “ syphilis;” it consists of lime water and calomel in the pro¬ portion of one ounce of lime water to three grains of calomel, with or 15 without a portion of nitrate of silver added thereto, with a decoction of “ slippery elm.” The fourth part of this Invention consists of a preparation for the treatment of “ spermatorrhoea ” of the following substances, viz., “ dry phosphoric acid,” “ powdered chincona,” “ extract casearilla,” each one 20 ounce; “prepared oyster shells” 15 grains, “powdered iron” 45 grains, made into pills with mucilage of gum arabic, with powder composed of “ bayberry,” “ ginger,” and “ capsicum.” Tour of these pills to be taken three times a day. The fifth part of this Invention relates to combinations of substances 25 to be used in treating that form of the disease known as “ gonorrhoea,” and it consists of “ balsam copaiva,” gum arabic mucilage, and solution of potash, the proportions being of “balsam copaiva” one ounce, gum arabic mucilage seven drams, and solution of potash one dram, with or without a portion of powdered “ cuhehs,” “ prickly ash bark,” and 30 “ tincture of henbane.” The sixth part of the Invention consists of an injection wThich is composed of pure starch 20 grains, sulphate of zinc 20 grains, spirits of camphor 20 drops, distilled water one ounce, to be used in the treatment of “ gonorrhoea.” 35 The seventh part of the Invention relates to an aperient pill composed of two and a half grains of “ Castile soap,” one grain of “ scammony,”